Category: humanities computing
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Review: Sustainable data from digital research conference, Melbourne
A conference was held at the University of Melbourne in December 2011 with the theme sustainable data from digital research organised by Dr Nick Thieberger and colleagues at the School of Languages and Linguistics with assistance from the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) and the new Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). The Keynote for…
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Stephen Ramsay: Melbourne December 12
Title of lecture: Found: Data, Textuality, and the Digital Humanities: Please register for this Information Futures event here: Time: Monday, December 12, from 9.30 – 10.30 in the Wood Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne (Map: Building 148, Next to Old Arts and Baillieu Library) In this presentation in Melbourne, Stephen Ramsay will discuss some…
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Rethinking the Digital Encyclopaedia Genre: An Australasian Perspective
Defining the Genre The term genre is used here to loosely describe the innovative work that has occurred in constructing and using dictionaries and encyclopaedias in the Australasian region. As computing applications within the humanities have expanded, so too have the boundaries of how we understand these applications. Many digital humanities projects have grown out…
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Dr Stan Ruecker on the future of digital reading
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CFP: Digital Humanities Australasia, 28-30 March 2012
Call for Papers, Panels and Posters **************************************************************************** DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting **************************************************************************** The inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 28-30 March 2012 Sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://aa-dh.org/conference…
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Roberto Busa dies aged 97
There are perhaps not many fields in the humanities that can trace their roots to certain individuals, collaborations, and innovative new approaches. But within the application of computing to humanities problems one name looms large. Roberto Busa, one of the pioneers of humanities computing, died in Italy on Tuesday (August 9, 2011). Roberto Busa is…